PSC Meeting 2021 07 29

Meeting time

IRC channel: #mapserver on irc.libera.chat (connect in browser or see other connection methods)

8.0.0 release plan discussions
- review major items outlined on release plan
- do we modify proposed release schedule?
community feedback / discussions
proposal: have regular PSC meetings once per month (last Thursday of every month, at this time)
your items here
next meeting date

Attending: Steve, Daniel, Jérome, Jeff
Agenda item: discuss the 8.0 release plan and timeline (plan: https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/MapServer-8.0-Release-Plan)
- jeff: will begin the change from shp2img to map2img
- steve: fine
- steve: I have todo: config file, RFC44 opt in patch, misc ogcapi fixes
- jeff: do we keep the feature freeze date of Fri Aug 6 ?
- steve: we should delay one month
- jeff: ok, propose 9/3 freeze, 10/1 release (keeping with Friday release schedule)
  - Feature freeze: Fri. September 3, 2021
  - 8.0-beta1: Fri. September 10, 2021
  - 8.0-beta2: Fri. September 17, 2021
  - 8.0-rc1: Fri. September 24, 2021
  - 8.0 (final): Fri. October 1, 2021
- jeff: asks Jerome about possible MapCache next release
- jerome: agrees that release with MapServer 8.0 is good plan
- steve: we should send note to dev list about config work status
- daniel: are we turning RFC drafts into official docs?
- jeff: did this for OGCAPI
- steve: we should do for Config draft also
- jeff: volunteers to convert
Agenda item: propose monthly PSC meeting
- jeff: proposes to use this timeslot (last Thursday of every month) for regular PSC meetings
- all in favor
Next meeting: Aug 26th, same time